The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at
Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...
, a large, urban, public research university in
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
, Pennsylvania. Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wide variety of academic degree programs, including architecture, art education, art history, art therapy, ceramics, city and regional planning, community arts practices, community development, facilities management, fibers and material studies, glass, graphic and interactive design, historic preservation, horticulture, landscape architecture, metals/jewelry/CAD-CAM, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual studies.
Founded in 1935 by Stella Elkins Tyler and sculptor
Boris Blai
Boris Blai (July 24, 1893 – June 28, 1985) was an American sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
In 1935, Blai founded and became the dean of the Stella Elkins Tyler Scho ...
in nearby
Elkins Park
Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the northern suburbs outside of Philadelphia, which it borders along Cheltenham Avenue roughly from Ce ...
, Pennsylvania, Tyler moved to a new, 255,000-square-foot facility at Temple's Main Campus in 2009 with the cornerstone financial support of an allocation of $61.5 million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2012, Tyler's Architecture programs moved into a new facility connected to the main Tyler building. Temple's programs in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture (based primarily at Temple's suburban Ambler Campus) and its programs in Main Campus-based City & Regional Planning and Community Development programs joined Tyler in 2016, unifying all of the university's architecture and environmental design disciplines in one school for the first time.
In 2017, arts administrator, art historian and curator Susan E. Cahan, formerly associate dean and dean for the arts at
Yale College
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...
at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
, was appointed dean of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture by Temple President Richard M. Englert.
In 2018, Temple University's board of trustees approved changes to Tyler's structure and identity in order to unify the school, integrate disciplines in architecture and environmental design, support cross-disciplinary studies and reflect current understanding of creative practice and research. On July 1, 2019, the school's name officially expanded from the Tyler School of Art to the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
Academic programs and accreditation
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture offers a wide range of degree and certificate programs in the areas of art, architecture and environmental design, graphic design, art history and art education.
Susan E. Cahan, has been Tyler's dean since 2017.
Tyler's academic degree programs:
*Architecture (BSArch, MArch, MSArch)
*Art Education (BSEd, BFA with Art Education Concentration, BSEd, MEd with Major in Art Education)
*Art History (BA, MA, MA Fine Arts Administration Track, PhD)
*Art Therapy (BA)
*Ceramics (BFA, MFA)
*City & Regional Planning (MS)
*Community Development (BS)
*Facilities Management (BS)
*Facilities Planning (MS)
*Fibers & Material Studies (BFA, MFA)
*Foundations (non-degree granting program for first-year students)
*Glass (BFA, MFA)
*Graphic & Interactive Design (BFA, MFA)
*Historic Preservation (BS)
*Horticulture (BSHort, ASHort)
*Landscape Architecture (BSLA, MLArch)
*Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM (BFA, MFA)
*Painting (BFA, MFA)
*Photography (BFA, MFA)
*Printmaking (BFA, MFA)
*Sculpture (BFA, MFA)
*Visual Studies (BA)
Temple also has a BA in Art program at
Temple University, Japan Campus
Temple University, Japan Campus (Abbreviated: TUJ, Japanese: テンプル大学ジャパンキャンパス) is an international campus of Temple University (located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States). TUJ has classrooms and student fac ...
, located in Tokyo.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University is a non-profit, accredited member of the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), founded in 1944, is an accrediting organization of colleges, schools and universities in the United States. The organization establishes standards for graduate and undergraduate degrees ...
National Architectural Accrediting Board
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), established in 1940, is the oldest accrediting agency for architectural education in the United States. The NAAB accredits professional degrees in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. r ...
, and the school's BLArch and MLArch programs are accredited by the National Landscape Architecture Board and the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board. Tyler's MS program in City and Regional Planning is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board. The BS program in Facilities Management is accredited by the International Facilities Management Association.
Facilities
In 2009 Tyler School of Art moved to a new location, a 255,000-square-foot building designed by architect Carlos Jiménez, Tyler's architecture program moved into a new, 50,000-square-foot Architecture Building in 2012. The two structures, which are connected by a passageway and are located at Temple University's Main Campus in Philadelphia. Their location adjacent to Presser Hall (part of Temple University's
Boyer College of Music and Dance
Boyer () is a French surname. In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names.
Origins and statistics
Boyer is found traditionally along the Mediterranean (Provence, Languedoc), the Rhône valley, Auvergne, Limou ...
) and Temple Theaters (part of Temple's School of Theater, Film and Media Arts) has created an arts quadrant in the northeast corner of campus.
Visiting artists and scholars
Tyler also hosts a variety of visiting artist, architect and scholar programs that bring leaders in their disciplines to the school to address the Tyler community and work with students in their classrooms and studios. Flagship visiting artist and scholar programs include:
The Jack Wolgin Annual Visiting Artist Symposium, an endowed visiting artist program that brings artists and thinkers to campus to work with Tyler students and present a free public lecture each year. Past Jack Wolgin Annual Visiting Artists:
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Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff (born 1946) is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundati ...
(2016)
*
LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) is an American artist and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier began photographing her family and hometown at the age of 16, revising the socia ...
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ca ...
(2019)
* Cecilia Vicuña (2020)
* Jennie C. Jones (2022)
Tyler Architecture alumni endowed a lecture series to honor Brigitte Knowles, professor emerita and former associate dean, that brings architects, landscape architects and designers to campus. Past lecturers include:
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David Adjaye
Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British architect. He is known for having designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. ...
, Founder and Principal, Adjaye Associates
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Craig Edward Dykers
Craig Edward Dykers is an American architect and founding partner of the architecture firm, Snøhetta.
History
Craig Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1961. In 1985 he graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University ...
, Founding Partner, Snøhetta
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Walter Hood
Walter J. Hood (born 1958, Charlotte, NC) is an American professor and former chair of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. In 2019, Hood was awarded the MacA ...
, Founder, Hood Design Studio
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Clive Wilkinson
Clive Wilkinson (born 1954, Cape Town, South Africa) is an architect and interior designer. Acknowledged as a pioneer in workplace design by thIIDA Wilkinson is perhaps best known for designing the interior of one of the buildings in the Googleple ...
Olalekan Jeyifous Olalekan Jeyifous (born 1977), commonly known as Lek (pronounced "Lake"), is a Nigerian-born visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Cornell University, where he also received his Bachelor of Architecture in ...
(2022)
Temple Contemporary
Temple Contemporary is Tyler's exhibitions and public programs unit. It was led by founding director Robert Blackson, Tyler's director of exhibitions and public programming from 2011 to 2021. Jova Lynne, formerly the Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, was hired as the Director of Temple Contemporary in 2021. Temple Contemporary's galleries and offices are located in the Tyler building at Temple University's Main Campus, although much of its programming takes place in the surrounding Philadelphia community.
Temple Contemporary's community-focused programming that has earned national attention includes "Funeral for a Home" (2014), an extended commemoration of at-risk urban housing stock and the lives that soon-to-be-demolished homes contain; "reForm" (2014-2015), a response to the closure of public schools and its impact on urban communities and their children by artist and Tyler faculty member
Pepón Osorio
Pepón Osorio is a Puerto Rican artist. He uses different objects as well as video in his pieces to portray political and social issues in the Latino community. He was born in 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico and studied at the Interamerican Universi ...
; and "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra" (2017-2018), a citywide effort to collect, display, repair and return broken instruments belonging to Philadelphia's public schools, highlighted by the composition of music for the broken instruments by composer David Lang and the music's performance by a diverse orchestra of local residents. All three of the projects above were funded in part by the
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a nonprofit grantmaking organization and knowledge-sharing hub for arts and culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US established in 2005. In 2008, Paula Marincola was named the first executive director. The ...
.
Notable alumni
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Dennis Adams
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About
Adams was born in Des Mo ...
, artist
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Polly Apfelbaum
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Biography
Timothy App attended Kent State University in Ohio, where he received a BFA d ...
, painter
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Bill Beckley
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Early life
Born in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, a small farming town in the Amish countryside, Bill Beckley attended college at Kutztown University from 1964 to 1968 an ...
, artist
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Stanley Bleifeld
Stanley Bleifeld (August 28, 1924 – March 26, 2011) was an American sculptor.
Early life
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bleifeld earned bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of science in education and in 1949 a master of fine arts degree in painting at ...
, sculptor
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Moe Brooker
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, artist
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Harriete Estel Berman
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Early life and education
Berman was born ...
, artist
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Karen Boccalero
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Early life and education
Carmen Rose Boccalero was born in Globe, Arizona, to Albert Boccalero and A ...
Skidmore
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Places United States
* Skidmore, Kansas
* Skidmore, Maryland
* Skidmore, Michigan
* Skidmore, Missouri
* Skidmore, Texas
* Skidmore, West Virginia
* Skidmore Fountain, a public fountain in Portland, Oregon
Other uses
* Sk ...
faculty member
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Donald Camp
Donald E. Camp (born 1940 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American artist, photographer, and professor emeritus of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Camp holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts fr ...
, photographer, Ursinus faculty member
*Syd Carpenter, artist, 2022 Gallery of Success honoree
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Barbara Chase-Riboud
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After becoming established as a sculptor and poet, Chase-Riboud gained widespread recognition as an ...
, artist, novelist, poet
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Manon Cleary
Manon Cleary (November 14, 1942 – November 26, 2011) was an American artist based in Washington, D.C. Cleary specialized in Photorealism, photo-realistic paintings and drawings. Many of her works were inspired by events in her life, and focu ...
, painter
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Cecelia Condit
Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.
Condit has ...
Chuck Connelly
Chuck Connelly (born January 7, 1955, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American painter.
Biography
Connelly graduated from the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania in 1977. Afterward, he moved from the Philadelphia area to New Y ...
Amber Cowan
Amber Cowan (born 1981) is an American artist and educator living and working in Philadelphia. Cowan creates fused and flameworked glass sculptures from cullet and recycled industrial glass.
Career
Cowan received her BFA in 3-Dimensional Desig ...
, artist
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Harvey Dinnerstein
Harvey Dinnerstein (April 3, 1928 – June 21, 2022) was an American figurative artist and educator. A draftsman and painter in the realistic tradition, his work included genre paintings, contemporary narratives, complex figurative compositions, ...
Yale
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Nick Fudge
Nick Fudge (aka Nicholas Fudge, born 12 August 1961) is a British painter, sculptor, and digital artist.
Fudge studied at Goldsmiths College, London, as a member of the YBA ( Young British Artists) generation along with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lu ...
Frank Gaylord
Frank Chalfant Gaylord II (March 9, 1925 – March 21, 2018) was an American sculptor best known for "The Column", a sculptural tableau of United States soldiers and sailors which is part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
C ...
, sculptor
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Neil Goodman
Neil Goodman is an American sculptor and educator, known for Bronze sculpture, bronze works that combine elegant arrangements and forms with hand-wrought, textured surfaces.Yood, James"Neil Goodman, Struve Gallery,"''Artforum'', November 1990, p. ...
, sculptor, educator
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Deborah Grant
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, artist
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings. Through his work, Hancock mainly aims to tell the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are part of the artist's world. ...
, artist
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Edgar Heap of Birds
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, artist
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Jessica Hische
Jessica Nicole Hische ( ; born April 4, 1984) is an American lettering artist, illustrator, author, and type designer. She was one of the first of a new generation of letterers and the present-day flourishing of the lettering arts can in part be t ...
Martha Jackson Jarvis
Martha Jackson Jarvis (born 1952) is an American artist known for her mixed-media installations that explore aspects of African, African American, and Native American spirituality, ecological concerns, and the role of women in preserving indige ...
, artist
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Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner; April 29, 1923November 27, 2010) was an American film director, actor, and producer of film and television.
He gained notice early in his career as a filmmaker for directing quirky, independent drama films ...
, film director
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Simmie Knox
Simmie Lee Knox (born August 18, 1935) is an American painter who painted the official White House portrait of former United States President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. He was the first black American artist to receive a presiden ...
, painter
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David Levine
David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in ''The New York Review of Books''. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the ...
Beth Lipman
Beth Lipman (born 1971, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary artist working in glass. She is best known for her glass still-life compositions which reference the work of 16th- and 17th-century European painters.
Biography
Beth Lipman ...
Joan Marter
Joan Marter is an American academic, art critic and author. A 1968 graduate of Temple University, Marter is the "Distinguished Professor of Art History" at Rutgers University. Marter is the co-editor of the ''Woman's Art Journal
The ''Woman's Art ...
, art historian,
Rutgers
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and w ...
faculty member
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Steven Montgomery
Steven Montgomery (born 1954 in Detroit) is an American artist most often associated with large scale ceramic art, ceramic sculpture suggesting industrial objects or mechanical detritus. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Grand Val ...
, artist
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Judy Moonelis
Judy Moonelis (born 1953) is an American ceramist.
Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, Moonelis earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree cum laude at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1975; she received a Master of Fine Arts Degree fro ...
, ceramic artist
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Ayanah Moor
Ayanah Moor (born 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is a conceptual artist working in print, video, mixed media, and performance. Her work addresses contemporary popular culture by interrogating identity and vernacular aesthetics. Much of h ...
Ree Morton
Ree Morton (August 3, 1936 – April 30, 1977) was an American visual artist who was closely associated with the postminimalist and feminist art movements of the 1970s.
Life and career
Ree Morton was born on August 3, 1936, in Ossining, New Yo ...
Lowell Blair Nesbitt
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, artist
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Albert Paley
Albert Paley (born 1944) is an American modernist metal sculptor. Initially starting out as a jeweler, Paley has become one of the most distinguished and influential metalsmiths in the world. Within each of his works, three foundational element ...
, artist
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Laura Parnes
Laura Parnes is contemporary American artist who creates non-linear narratives that engage strategies of film and video art and blur the lines between storytelling conventions and experimentation. Her work is often episodic, references pop cultu ...
, artist
* Marlo Pascual, photographer
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Janet Perr
Janet Perr is an art director, graphic designer, author and illustrator.
She has designed record covers, advertisements, posters, CD packages and book covers and is now the creator of the books ''Yiddish For Dogs'' (Hyperion, Sept. 2007) and ''Yi ...
, designer, art director
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Amy Pleasant
Amy Pleasant (born 1972) is an American painter living and working in Birmingham, AL.
Biography
Pleasant received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Pleasant is best ...
, painter
*Eric Pryor, President of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
* Erin M. Riley, artist
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Paula Scher
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Sarai Sherman
Sarai Sherman (September 2, 1922 – October 24, 2013) was a Pennsylvania-born Jewish American artist whose work, both in America and Europe shaped international views of women and abstract expressionism. She was a significant twentieth century pa ...
, painter
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Sondra Sherman
Sondra Sherman (born 1958) is an American painter and jewelry maker. Sherman's work has been praised for its "deeply personal" expression of human emotion and of the subjects inspired by them. Sherman's skills and reputation as a jeweler have ea ...
, painter, jewelry artist
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Aaron Shikler
Aaron Abraham Shikler (March 18, 1922 – November 12, 2015) was an American artist noted for portraits of American statesmen, such as the official portrait of John F. Kennedy, and celebrities such as Jane Engelhard and Sister Parish.
Early li ...
, painter
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Lisa Sigal
Lisa Sigal (born 1962) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Life and work
Sigal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She works with painting, sculpture and architecture. Her constructions insinuate themselves in ...
John Stango
John Stango (born August 9, 1958) is an American pop artist.
Biography
Born and raised in urban Philadelphia, Stango attended Tyler School of Art at Temple University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Graphic Design. Af ...
Patricia Renee' Thomas
Patricia Renee' Thomas (born 1995) is an American painter, draftswoman, and art educator based in Philadelphia.
Early life and education
Patricia Renee' Thomas is the second of four daughters born to Mark Thomas and Dawn Renee' Thomas (nee Snipe ...
Angela Washko
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, artist
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Hannah Wilke
Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; March 7, 1940 – January 28, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Wilke's work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity.
B ...
, sculptor, photographer
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Lisa Yuskavage
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, painter
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Paul O. Zelinsky
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, author, illustrator
Notable current and past faculty
* Adela Akers, textile and fiber artist
* Philip Betancourt, archaeologist and art historian
* Doug Bucci, metals artist
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Richard Callner
Richard Callner (May 18, 1927 – August 31, 2007) was a 20th-century American painter. His early work was related to the Chicago Monster School of the 1950s. Later, he was known for his intricately patterned interiors and landscapes. His career ...
, painter
* Jon F. Clark, glass artist
* Richard Cramer, painter
* John E. Dowell Jr., printmaker
*
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power th ...
, artist
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Mark Thomas Gibson
Mark Thomas Gibson (born 1980, Miami, FL) is an American visual artist working in painting, print, ink, and watercolor. Gibson's work explores Black representation in the United States using the medium of comics.
Education
Gibson received his B. ...
, artist
* Hermann Gundersheimer, art historian
* Marcia B. Hall, art historian
* Jesse Harrod, fiber artist
* Amy Hauft, sculptor
* C.T. Jasper, artist
* Nicholas Kripal, sculptor
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Stanley Lechtzin Stanley Lechtzin (born 1936) is an American artist, jeweler, metalsmith and educator. He is noted for his work in electroforming and computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacture (CAM). He has taught at Temple University in the Tyler Sc ...
Karyn Olivier
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, artist
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Pepón Osorio
Pepón Osorio is a Puerto Rican artist. He uses different objects as well as video in his pieces to portray political and social issues in the Latino community. He was born in 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico and studied at the Interamerican Universi ...
Rudolf Staffel
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Biography
Rudolf Staffel was born in 1911 in San Antonio, Texas. Staffel attended Brackenridge High School. Staffel initially wanted to be a painter, a ...
, ceramic artist
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Robert Storr (art academic)
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Education
Robert Storr received his B.A. in History and French from Swarthmore College in 1972, and earned an M.F.A. in Art from the School of the Art Institute of ...
, art historian
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Stanley Whitney
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Arts and entertainment
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* ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy
* ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short
* ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...
Widener family
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) donated her estate in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, to Temple University in the early 1930s. With an interest in progressive education and a deep appreciation of her mentor, the sculptor Boris Blai, Tyler offered her estate with the expressed wish that, through Boris Blai, it would become an environment for the advancement of the fine arts, scholarly study in the arts and individual creativity. As founding dean of what was then known as the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts, Blai instilled the school with a commitment to progressive education emphasizing the student's mastery of technique within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum. Blai insisted upon individual attention to each student's needs as the basis of successful teaching. During his 25-year tenure as dean, Blai shaped the school into one of the finest visual arts centers in the country, and his founding ideals still remain paramount to Tyler's educational philosophy.
In 1960, Charles Le Clair succeeded Blai. Under Le Clair, the Tyler campus was improved with construction of a residence hall and two studio/classroom buildings. In 1966, the school's name was changed to the Tyler School of Art, and Le Clair founded the Tyler Study Abroad program in Rome, Italy. Tyler's programs at Temple University Rome remain among the most respected fine arts study abroad programs in Europe today. Temple University Rome has expanded to include a full range of liberal arts, architecture, business and law courses with an emphasis on those relating to Rome, Italy and Europe. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Tyler's curriculum continued to grow in response to new definitions of art-making and the role of art in society. New programs and modern facilities in design, ceramics, glass, metals and photography were added. During this time, Tyler established Art History and Art Education departments on Temple's Main Campus in Philadelphia.
The pace of change and growth began to accelerate dramatically in the late 1990s. In 1998, Tyler opened Temple's Department of Architecture. In 2009, Tyler moved from Elkins Park into a new, 250,000-square-foot building at Temple's Main Campus. Three years later, Architecture moved into a new 50,000-square-foot facility connected to the new Tyler building. Temple's programs in landscape architecture, horticulture, city and regional planning, and community development became part of Tyler in 2016, for the first time unifying all of the architecture and environmental design disciplines at Temple in one academic unit. In 2017, Susan E. Cahan, who came from Yale University became the first permanent dean of an independent Tyler since the school moved into its new building in 2009. On July 1, 2019, more than 20 years after Architecture at Temple became part of Tyler, the school's name officially became the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
Tyler's leaders:
* Boris Blai, dean (1935-1960)
* Charles Le Clair, dean (1960-1974)
*Donald M. Lantzy, acting dean (1974-1975)
*Jack Wasserman, dean (1975-1977)
* David Pease, interim dean (1977-1978) and dean (1978-1984)
*George Bayliss, dean (1984-1989)
* Rochelle Toner, dean (1989-2002)
* Hester Stinnett, acting dean (2002-2005)
* Keith Anthony Morrison, dean (2005-2008)
* Therese Dolan, interim dean (2008-2009)
* Robert Stroker, interim dean and dean of Center for the Arts (2009-2015)
* Hester Stinnett, interim dean (2015-2017)
* Susan E. Cahan, dean (2017–present)